- Only once in history a BP nominee/winner was nominated for Best Visual Effects and lost it to a movie that was not a BP nominee (Patton lost to Tora! Tora! Tora!)
- A movie has NEVER won Best Adapted Screenplay yet if it was the film's only nomination
- Only three movies in Oscar history have won Best Costume Design if it was their only nom (most recent - Marie Antoinette)
- The Golden Globe winners for Best Song have been snubbed for a nom for the last five years in a row - I guess Springsteen had it coming, heh.
- The Best Song category is the most likely one to have films with only one single nom
- This year is the third time since 1944 in which BP/BD/Screenplay matched 5/5.
- It's the fifth time since 1944 that BP/BD matched 5:5.
- Best Director and Best Screenplay noms go together rather "often" without a necessary BP nom. 64 movies have been nominated for Best Director and Screenplay, without getting as Best Picture nom - 17 of them foreign films - most recently Talk to Her, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and City of God!
- Woody Allen got Best Director/Screenplay in the same year four times without his films getting a BP nod in those years
- Best Picture/Director match for the win - 74%
- Best Picture and Best Screenplay matched in 65%
- Best Picture and Best Editing - 42%
- Worst match - Best Picture and Best Sound Editing - happened only twice (Braveheart and Titanic). I assume that doesn't bode well for Slumdog...
- My Man Godfrey was nominated for Director, Screenplay and four acting awards - and snubbed for Best Picture!
- Only three films won Best Picture without a Best Director nom - Wings, Grand Hotel and Driving Miss Daisy
- Of the 96 films ever nominated for best Sound Editing, 13 won Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing. 12 won Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects. 8 won all three: Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Titanic, The Matrix and King Kong.
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